小词详解 | novice
novice 英 [ˈnɒvɪs] 美 [ˈnɑːvɪs]
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外刊例句
Many are worried about what such technology means for books, with big bookshops closing, new devices spreading, novice authors flooding the market and an online behemoth known as Amazon growing ever more powerful.
许多人都担心这类技术对书意味着什么。大书店关门,新设备流行,新手作者充斥市场,亚马逊这个网上巨头变得日益强大。
——《经济学人》While some nations immediately supported the idea, others completely missed the point of Malamud’s vision: to make the fair a public-works project that focuses on what the Internet can offer expert or novice.
有些国家二话没说就表态支持,有些国家却完全没有抓到马拉默德的着眼点:就是要使这个博览会成为一个公共工程,此工程重点在国际互联网能为专家或新手提供什么服务。
——《时代周刊》
基本释义
[noun] a person new to or inexperienced in a field or situation
[名词] 对某个领域或情况不熟悉或缺乏经验的人
深入解读
Novice 不仅是一个与熟词 notice 十分形似的单词,同时也与熟词 novel (小说;新颖的、新奇的、与众不同的)同词根 nov (新的)。
其中, novice 由词根 nov + 后缀 -ice (表示人)构成,14世纪中期由拉丁语 novicius (指奴隶“新引进的、新到的、缺乏经验的”)的名词用法经古法语 novice (新手、初学者)进入英语后,先是用在宗教领域表示“见习修士或修女”。
等到了15世纪初后, novice 开始用来表示现在的主要含义指“新手、生手、初学者”,主要指对某个工作、领域或情况不熟悉或缺乏经验的人,也就意味着还有很多东西要学,比如:
新手穿高跟鞋应避免10厘米细高跟鞋。你可以先试试从坡跟鞋或者鞋跟较厚的鞋子开始。
The novice heel wearer should avoid 10 centimetre stilettos. You may want to start by trying wedges or shoes with a thicker heel.
名著用例
He would not have done it with an older, wiser woman, but in Carrie he saw only the novice. Less clever than she, he was naturally unable to comprehend her sensibility.
如果他是在和一个阅历丰富的女子打交道,他不会干出这种蠢事来的。但是他把嘉莉看作一个初出道的黄毛丫头,又没有她聪明,自然无法理解她的感情。
出自美国现实主义作家西奥多·德莱赛(Theodore Dreiser)创作的长篇小说《嘉莉妹妹》(Sister Carrie)。
同近义词
newbie: an inexperienced newcomer to a particular activity
greenhorn: a person who is new to or inexperienced at a particular activity
apprentice: a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages
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